The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-31

"a Tailor and His Family Disappear
from Atlanta, and Leave no Clue as
to Whore or Why they Have Gone
Strange Antics of a Dog at Lincoln
ton.
GEORGIA
The Hancock fair will embrace Oct. Is,
IA and Is.
The court house yard in Madison was
sold to the highest bidder, a few days ago,
for s. So
j. w. Turnipseeds gin house, two miles
from Griffin, was burned by incendiaries a
night or two ago. The loss is 81, 200
/. O. Mcdaniel, father of the ex-Gover-
nor. died at Altoona Monday, and was
buried at Atlanta yesterday. He was 50
years of age.
A turpentine firm has purchased about
5000 acres of timber on the line of the pro,
spective railroad near Excelsior, ana VIII
erect large still.
F. M. Huckaba of Lowell district, Car
roll county. SAYS he is now about 60 years
of age. and never bought a store pair of
pants, hat, boots or shoes. He has them all
made at home. ...,
The Atlanta Starch Company is the name
of the new firm that have the only starch
factory in the South. This new stock com
pany will be the successor to the Magnolia
Starch Company
The Ordinary of Washington county has
entered into possession of the armory build
ing at Sandersville, under the provisions of
the deed made to HowelPs battery, Ny
which the property reverted to the county
six months after the disorganization of said
company.
A certain element of the colored Baptist
church at Sandersvlle have seeded from
the congregation over which Rev. Daniel
Palmer has charge, and have erected tenn
porary shelter east of the Augusta, Gibson
and Sandersville railroad, i'll which divine
services are held.
Oglethorpe Echo. Next Wednesday is the
first anniversary of the great earthquake
that did so much damage in Charleston and
Augusta and ever since we have been on
the alert for shakes Sunday night last
very distinct ja.' was felt by numbers in
this vicinity, sufficiently strong to rattle
window panes and crockery.
Dahlonega Signal: A good many people
are accustomed to use peach tree bark tea
when sick. So we will give them something
new--at least to us-which several good cit
liens have vouched for as the truth: When
tea is made from bark that is skinned off
upward, the tea acts as an emetic; when
skinned downward, it acts as cathartlc.
Governor Gordon, Saturday issued an or
der on the Treasurer for the payment of $50
each to four negro men from Wilcox
county and Alonzo Guyton, also negro and
Marshal of Darien, for the arrest and de-
livery to the Sheriff of Wilcox county of
Emmett Terrell, of that county. He is
quite young boy, but last year killed
man there and ran away. They recognized
the boy in Wilcox county and reported him
to Guvton, the Marshal, who arrested him.
For some days past the police of Atlanta
have been working up case of a peculiar
nature Two white women left baby with
a negro woman and mysterlously disap-
peared The baby was at first supposed to
be white, but was found afterward to be
mulatto Susie Dunning, the white mother
of The baby, was arraigned in a Justice
court Monday, but was discharged upon
statement that she was willing to take care
of the child and prove that she is worth
k25, 900. She is II years old.
The Prohibition election in Meriwether
county Monday resulted in an overwhelm-
ing victory for the ants, whose majority is
estimated at over 500. At Greenville LOSS
votes were cast up to about 4 o'clock, of
which 700 were thought to be wet. Wood
bury gave five majority wet, Warm
Springs, eleven majority wet. Two other
districts, sixty and forty-two majorities
wet But two districts known to be strong
" Prohibitionist had not been heard from
by the correspondent Every wet vote
was challenged, and there is much talk of
contest.
Monday Comptroller General Wright re-
ceived the tax digest containing the returns
of taxable property for the year 1887 of
Appling county. The amount returned is
81 ,042, 1852, an increase over 1856 of sos, SIP
This leaves only two counties to be heard
from, Monroe and Pulaski. The increase in
the value of taxable property in the State
will approximate an amount between
SIC, 200, 900 and Sl3, 100000 Next year this
increase will be considerably larger, as
there will be quite a number of factories
and other enterprises that have been free
from taxation subject to the usual rate.
Postmaster Hardeman, of Macon, re-
ceived notification from the Post Office De
partment at Washington Monday that w.
B. Lane, Postmaster at Alice, i'll Pulaski
county, was short i'll his accounts to the
amount of 1899, and that the bondsmen, S.
B. Perkins and William II. Wylly, were
called upon to make good the deficit When
Col Wylly was informed of the notifica-
ton, he says he does not remember ever
having signed any such bond. He has been
a citizen of Macon since 1882, and has only
visited Cochran twice since. Alice is about
six miles from Cochran. 1t is evident that
some other William H. Wylly is the bonds
man.
Monday afternoon marriage came off in
Athens which created considerable interest.
William b. Burpee, carriage maker of
that city. and a member of the firm of Bur
pee Brothers, was married to Miss Laura
Gordon, at the residence of the groom, Rev.
c. S. Owens, pastor of the Oconee Street
Methodist church, officiating. Miss Laura
Gordon arrived in Athens last May as a
member of the Salvation Army holding the
commission of Lieutenant, and since that
time has been active in the work of that
corps She came from Augusta and besides
being comedy and attractive young lady
of 20, led many of the services, and was
known as a jealous exhorter and good
singer.
At Jacksonville Monday Ed Fletcher
(colored) and another colored man, Abner
Wilcox, were at the residence of Uncle
Frank Fletcher They were playing with
Smith g. Wesson No. 81 pistol, in the
hands of Ed, when the pistol was accident
ally discharged, the ball passing through
the forefnger of Abner, and entering the
left breast of Ed, about IL inches to the
left and above the nipple, passing through
the heart and causing death almost in
stantly. 1t seems that Abner playfully
went to take some papers or letters from
the outer left breast pocket of Eds coat,
when Ed threw up his hand TO prevent it,
and the pistol being in that hand was dis
charged.
At Chauncey the accident that occurred
Friday hxv